How one 'Never Trump' conservative's Twitter thread about police use of force against protesters became a viral phenomenon.
when they’re groping the woman’s breasts and she breaks away and then they’re beating the ... out of her. There’s one where you’ve got a 16-year-old boy standing on a hill and they sniper-shoot him in the head from a distance.One counter-argument you hear is that these types of bystander videos don’t show the full context of what’s happening and that the bigger picture might tell a different story.
For a lot of these, you have footage of the whole thing, start to finish. You see a peaceful protest and then the police say, “OK, we’ve had enough 1st Amendment for today. Let’s go ahead and start shooting people.” I think that argument is just specious garbage. You have so many videos in so many jurisdictions over a very small time span that people are kind of realizing, “OK, yeah, what we’ve been fed over the past however-many decades is, in fact, garbage.
The short answer is, I don’t really know. Part of the problem is that even though it’s politicized, both Democrats and Republicans have been beholden to police for years. From the Republican side, they love cops because cops brutalize minorities and they’re racists. On the Democrat side, cops are public employees and they have unions so they tend to let that go along too.You look at North Carolina as an example.
You describe yourself as a “Never Trump” conservative. Do you think Trump has encouraged the use of these types of aggressive tactics on the part of police officers? How much of the responsibility for what we’re seeing do you think lies with him?
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